The Official Simpsons Griefing Thread

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Traditional Tet said:
I'm so glad Futurama ended before its legacy was tarnished. It's last two or three seasons after the movies were horrible. Full of Simpsons-like Apple references etc, losing all the charm of the earlier seasons... Though they did have a few good eps, e.g. Game of Tones ending.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=TRuAKWJ8Ets
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Tangentially related, but I came across this for the first time today.
 
CWCissey said:
Seems to be an Olympics thing.
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To be precise, the Super Bowl followed by three weekends of Olympics and then the Oscars preempts new episodes of most Sunday evening programming from airing, even on competing networks. Same thing happened in 2014.

Sexy Times Hitler said:
Probably sports, but it's weird since Fox isn't airing the Super Bowl this year.
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Competing TV networks almost never air new programming against the Super Bowl, even going back to the days when significantly more people watched broadcast television "live". Too much of the audience is watching the big game for them to waste money on new episodes when they could just air reruns.
 
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I think there might be new episodes of some scripted cable shows during the Olympics, especially on premium cable where the loss in advertising revenue due to the anticipated drop in viewers during the major live sporting events is less of a factor.

I'm sure Netflix and the other on demand services will still put out original content in February, since there's no schedule to disrupt and even if someone's watching the Olympics "live", they can still fit in Netflix viewing during events they're not interested in.
 
Plissken said:
I haven't watched the simpsons in so long; I think the last season I watched was season 1o, but I heard that the Simpsons has gotten so bad. If that's the case, how the hell does it keep going? Especially since Groening shit-canned Futurama again (Or rather, finished it. Still, Futurama has much more potential to do stuff than the Simpsons does, for obvious reasons). Is Groening allergic to creativity all of a sudden?
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You did good at stopping at Season 10.

Watch Saddlesore Galactica (S11 E13) and then you'll be really glad you stopped watching the show at Season 10.
 
RIP_SANITY said:
You did good at stopping at Season 10.

Watch Saddlesore Galactica (S11 E13) and then you'll be really glad you stopped watching the show at Season 10.
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That one was probably the one that really made me give up on it. Horse jockeys are actually evil elves who live underground inside a large fiberglass tree. Would have been fine if maybe that was one of Homer's wild exaggerations or a dream sequence or something, but it's 100% real. Before, the show had been at least somewhat realistic.

That and I always liked how they'd always find some creative way to undo whatever craziness happened during the episode and set things back to normal by the end. At some point the just stopped bothering with that, probably because everyone knew they'd be back in Springfield like nothing ever happened by the next episode anyway.

It's been years now since I watched it at all. I keep seeing used DVD sets around for cheap and I've been tempted to pick up seasons 1-8, maybe 9 and 10. The last one I found a bit entertaining was the boy band one, and that was S12 E14. Plus there wouldn't be the Ralph Wiggum song without it, so there's that.
Whoever made that video has way too much time on their hands.
 
RIP_SANITY said:
You did good at stopping at Season 10.

Watch Saddlesore Galactica (S11 E13) and then you'll be really glad you stopped watching the show at Season 10.
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Oh wow I just realized season 11 has Kill The alligator and Run as well as the one where Maude dies which in addition to Saddlesore Galactica are also considered to be two of the worst episodes of all time. I guess season 11 really was the turning point for the series.
 
TheGreatCitracett said:
That one was probably the one that really made me give up on it. Horse jockeys are actually evil elves who live underground inside a large fiberglass tree. Would have been fine if maybe that was one of Homer's wild exaggerations or a dream sequence or something, but it's 100% real. Before, the show had been at least somewhat realistic.
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Good then that I had already gave up by that point, but yeah, prior to this, they tend to have things be exaggerated dreams or hallucinations, like the time Homer tried cleaning in an un-ventilated basement.

That and I always liked how they'd always find some creative way to undo whatever craziness happened during the episode and set things back to normal by the end. At some point the just stopped bothering with that, probably because everyone knew they'd be back in Springfield like nothing ever happened by the next episode anyway.
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Seems to be the reason.
 
I do love this scene from season 16 though. "Spider poison is people poison?"

 
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